''Who's Stopping Us'' ( es, Quién lo impide, links=no) is a 2021 Spanish film directed by Jonás Trueba. Featuring a running time over three and a half hours long, the film is a generational portrait of youth blending documentary and fiction pieces.

Plot

The film tracks a group high schoolers in Madrid, following them from mid-teens to their early 20s.

Cast

Production

A Los Ilusos Films production, ''Who's Stopping Us'' was shot from 2016 to 2021.

Release

The film had its world premiere at the

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(SSIFF), screened on 22 September 2021 (6th day) as pàrt of the festival's official competition. Distributed by Atalante Cinema, the film was theatrically released in Spain on 22 October 2021.

Reception

Pablo Vázquez of '' Fotogramas'' scored 5 out of 5 stars, extolling the absence of any sort of imposture, while noting that its extended runtime perhaps will dissuade cowards, assessing the film to be "a cum laude thesis with which its director embraces his maturity as a filmmaker". Carmen L. Lobo of '' La Razón'' gave it 4 out of 5 stars, considering "its splendid, immersive direction, and the optimism and nostalgia enveloping the film" to be the best thing about ''Who's Stopping Us''. Quim Casas of '' El Periódico de Catalunya'' rated the film with 4 out of 5 stars, considering that the vast amount of material "has taken an exciting form, in different blocks perfectly articulated with each other." Jonathan Romney of '' ScreenDaily'' wrote that the film is "not as revelatory as it intends, this is an only intermittently fascinating watch, an over-extended experiment that doesn't quite hold its own against 21st-century cinema's more incisive portraits of youth". ''Who's Stopping Us'' closed ''

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''s top 10 films of 2022 list.

Accolades

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9th Feroz Awards The 9th ceremony of the Premios Feroz, known as the Feroz Awards 2022, presented by the Asociación de Informadores Cinematográficos de España, took place at the Auditorio de Zaragoza in Zaragoza, Spain, on 29 January 2022, to recognize the bes ...

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36th Goya Awards The 36th Goya Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences (AACCE), honoured the best in Spanish films of 2021 and took place at the Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía in Valencia on 12 February 2022. The ceremony ...

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9th Platino Awards The 9th Platino Awards ceremony, organised by EGEDA and FIPCA, was held on 1 May 2022 at the IFEMA Palacio Municipal in Madrid, Spain. The ceremony was hosted by Lali Espósito and Miguel Ángel Muñoz. Background In February 2022, Madrid was d ...

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References

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